+1. On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 8:32 PM Moaz Reyad (JIRA) <j...@apache.org> wrote:
> Moaz Reyad created SINGA-459: > -------------------------------- > > Summary: Remove support for Python 2.7 > Key: SINGA-459 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SINGA-459 > Project: Singa > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Moaz Reyad > > > The [support of Python 2 will end soon|https://pythonclock.org/] and some > projects already stopped supporting it. (For example,[scikit-learn| > https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn#installation] 0.20 was the > last version to support Python2.7). > > If everyone agrees, we can plan to remove the Python 2 support from SINGA > starting from the next release. > > This will help in improving the python code and simplifying the building > process. > > For the code improvement: currently the code uses 'future' library to > support both python 2 and 3. This will not be needed if only python 3 code > is supported. There is also string encoding code that is complicated by the > need to be backward compatible with python 2. > > For the building process: the build options will contain only python 3 by > default. The developers will not confuse python 2 and python 3 options and > dependencies. Testing will be easier because only python 3 scenarios will > be tested. > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v7.6.3#76005) >
